embarrassingly bad
Frequency: 6.05.0 per million words
Used to describe something that is very bad, to a degree that causes embarrassment.
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- The special effects in that sci-fi movie were embarrassingly bad.
- His first attempt at stand-up comedy was embarrassingly bad; nobody laughed.
- I'm never going back to that restaurant; the service was embarrassingly bad.
- The professor said my initial draft was embarrassingly bad, but he helped me improve it.
- My French pronunciation is still embarrassingly bad, even after a year of classes.
- The team's performance in the final match was embarrassingly bad, losing 10-0.
- If the quality control is this poor, the final product will be embarrassingly bad.
- To be honest, the plot of the new TV series is embarrassingly bad.
- The band's cover of the classic song was considered embarrassingly bad by most critics.
- Their first marketing campaign was so embarrassingly bad that they had to pull it after one day.